John Kaag swims Walden

Thoreau believed even minor acts of protest awaken moral indignation in a mind (like mine) that tends toward the amorality of the private, privileged life. On open water swimming at Walden and other small acts of civil-disobedience:

...If you swim around Walden Pond without cutting any corners, it is 1.48 miles. I usually take this route, skirting the shores where Thoreau sauntered beginning in March 1845. It takes me a little over 36 minutes. This time I went straight across. The lifeguard would have to take the dinghy if he wanted to physically stop me...

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